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Learning and Skills Council

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The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) was a non-departmental public body jointly sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) in England. [1]

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Al-Khair Foundation

Al-Khair Foundation (AKF) is an international Muslim aid NGO based in the United Kingdom, and is the third largest Muslim charity in the UK.

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Alan Sugar

Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British business magnate, media personality, politician and political adviser.

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Alexandra Burslem

Dame Alexandra Vivien Burslem (known as Sandra Burslem), DBE, JP, DL, FRSA (née Thornley; born 6 May 1940) is a British academic and educationalist.

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Ambassador Theatre Group

The Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) is a major international theatre organisation headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in Woking (head office), London, New York, Sydney, Mannheim and Cologne.

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AoC NILTA

AoC NILTA is a membership services organisation which leads and lobbies for the development and use of ICT and e-learning across the post-16 education sector.

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ASET (education)

ASET is a national awarding body in the United Kingdom that provides Awards and Qualifications in post-14 vocational and higher education and training.

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Austin Allegro

The Austin Allegro is a small family car that was manufactured by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1973 until 1982.

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Barrow Sixth Form College

Barrow Sixth Form College, part of Furness College, is located in the outskirts of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.

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Beacon Status

Beacon Status was a progressive educational initiative that the United Kingdom implemented based on the idea that organizational learning could be advanced through a competitive process of identifying successful organizations and recruiting them to disseminate their good practices.

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Birmingham Metropolitan College

Birmingham Metropolitan College is a further and higher education college with 10 campuses distributed within Birmingham, England.

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Bishop Burton College

Bishop Burton College is a further education land based college based in Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Braintree Sixth Form

Braintree Sixth Form is a school Sixth Form centre for educating 16- to 19-year-olds in Braintree, Essex, England.

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Capita

Capita plc, commonly known as Capita, is an international business process outsourcing and professional services company headquartered in London.

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Carter & Carter

Carter & Carter Group plc was a British-based public limited company that provided outsourced training services and apprenticeships on behalf of various international companies and UK government organisations, such as the Learning and Skills Council.

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Castle Vale

Castle Vale is a housing estate located between Erdington, Minworth and Castle Bromwich.

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Centre of Vocational Excellence

Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) is a status given to departments in further education colleges (and some third party training companies) in England.

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Chris Banks (businessman)

Sir Chris N. Banks CBE (born 1959) is a British businessman.

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City College Norwich

City College Norwich is a college of Further and Higher Education in Norfolk, England.

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Dance and Drama Awards

The Dance and Drama Awards are a scholarship scheme which subsidises professional vocational training at some of the leading performing arts schools in the United Kingdom.

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Daventry

Daventry (historically) is a market town in Northamptonshire, England, with a population of 25,026.

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David Blunkett

David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, (born 6 June 1947) is a former British politician, having represented the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency for 28 years through to 7 May 2015 when he stepped down at the general election.

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David Melville (academic)

Sir David Melville, (born 4 April 1944) is a British physicist, academic, academic administrator, and public servant.

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Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) was a United Kingdom government department between 2001 and 2007, responsible for the education system (including higher education and adult learning) as well as children's services in England.

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Designs of the Time

Designs of the Time (Dott) was a UK design programme that developed new solutions to social and economic challenges by involving communities in designing local services.

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Domestic energy assessor

A Domestic Energy Assessor (DEA) is an accredited position in the UK that is approved by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).

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Doncaster Education City

Doncaster Education City (or DEC) is a £90 million higher and further education facility in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

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East Midlands

The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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East Riding College

East Riding College is a further education college located in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Education & Skills Select Committee

The Education & Skills Select Committee was a Committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Education and Skills Act 2008

The Education and Skills Act 2008 (c 25) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that raised the minimum age at which a person can leave education or training to eighteen for those born after 1 September 1997, with an interim minimum leaving age of 17 from 2013.

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Education in Birmingham

This article is about education in Birmingham, England.

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Education in London

London is a leading global educational centre, having one of the largest populations of overseas students of any city in the world.

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Education on the Isle of Wight

Education on the Isle of Wight is provided by local education authority-maintained schools on the Isle of Wight, and independent schools.

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Education reforms on the Isle of Wight

Education reforms on the Isle of Wight is part of a process to change the Isle of Wight's education from a three-tier system to a two-tier system.

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Educational consultant

An educational consultant is an independent consultant who helps parents/students and organizations with educational planning.

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Franklin College, Grimsby

Franklin Sixth Form College is a sixth form college on Chelmsford Avenue in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, serving more than 2,700 students, including adult learners.

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Further Education Funding Council for England

The Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFC) was a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education and Skills which distributed funding to Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges in England between 1992 and 2001.

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Giles Clarke

Charles Giles Clarke (born 29 May 1953) is an English businessman and cricket administrator, and former chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board.

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Grantham College

Grantham College is a further education and Sixth Form college located in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

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Greenhead College

Greenhead College is a former grammar school and current sixth form college located in Huddersfield, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education

Grimsby Institute and University Centre Grimsby (often Grimsby Institute or GIFHE, formerly Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education and Grimsby College) is a further and higher education University Centre in North East Lincolnshire, England.

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HCT Group

HCT Group is a social enterprise providing transport services and community services in Bristol, Guernsey, Jersey, London and Yorkshire.

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Higher Education Funding Council for England

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom, which was responsible for the distribution of funding for higher education to universities and further education colleges in England since 1992.

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HM Prison Swinfen Hall

HM Prison Swinfen Hall is a Category C men's prison and Young Offenders Institution, located in the village of Swinfen (near Lichfield) in Staffordshire, England.

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Howard Panter

Sir Howard Hugh Panter (born 25 May 1949) is a British theatre impresario and theatre operator.

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Hugh Baird College South Sefton Campus

South Sefton College was a foundation sixth form located in Litherland in the English county of Merseyside.

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Hull College

Hull College is a further education college based in Kingston upon Hull, England.

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Institute for Learning

The Institute for Learning (IfL) was a voluntary membership, UK professional body.

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International Therapy Examination Council

ITEC is an international examination board offering a variety of qualifications worldwide.

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Jisc

Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company whose role is to support post-16 and higher education, and research, by providing relevant and useful advice, digital resources and network and technology services, while researching and developing new technologies and ways of working.

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Jobeda Ali

Jobeda Begum Ali (জোবেদা বেগম আলী; born 7 January 1975) is an English businesswoman, award-winning social entrepreneur, documentary filmmaker and chief executive of Three Sisters Care.

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Kate McGregor

Kate McGregor (born 1972) is an English actress known for her portrayal of the character Emily Kirk in British soap opera Emmerdale.

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Kendal College

Kendal College is a further education college situated in Kendal on the edge of the Lake District National Park.

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KSS Design Group

KSS is a design group founded in 1991 that specialises in architecture, interior design, branding and graphics.

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Learning and Skills Act 2000

The Learning and Skills Act 2000 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Learning and skills in England

In England, learning and skills refers typically to post-compulsory education and training, provided by further education and sixth form colleges, schools with sixth forms, local authority and adult education institutions, private and voluntary sector providers, offender learning, and workplace learning including Apprenticeships and other employer-facing initiatives.

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Leeds City College

Leeds City College is the largest Further education establishment in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with around 26,000 students, 2,300 staff and an annual turnover of £78 million.

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Lincoln College, Lincolnshire

Lincoln College is a predominantly further education college based in the City of Lincoln, England.

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List of automobiles considered the worst

The following is a list of automobiles considered the worst. They are judged by poor critical reception, poor customer reception, safety defects, and/or poor workmanship.

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List of sub-regions used in the London Plan

Greater London is divided into five sub-regions for the purposes of the London Plan.

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London Connects

London Connects was jointly owned by the Greater London Authority and London Councils.

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London Plan

The London Plan is the statutory spatial development strategy for the Greater London area in the United Kingdom that is written by the Mayor of London and published by the Greater London Authority.

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LSC

LSC may refer to.

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Manor Community Academy

Manor Community Academy is a secondary school in the Owton Manor area of Hartlepool, County Durham.

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Mark Haysom

Mark Haysom (born 1953) is a British author whose critically acclaimed first novel was published by Little, Brown Book Group in 2014.

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Michael Bichard, Baron Bichard

Michael George Bichard, Baron Bichard, KCB, (born 31 January 1947) is a former public servant in the United Kingdom, first in local and then as a civil servant in central government.

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MidKent College

MidKent College (formerly Mid-Kent College of Higher and Further Education) is a further education college in Kent, England.

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National Employer Service

The National Employer Service (NES) was a service of the Learning and Skills Council which became the Skills Funding Agency.

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National Learning Network

The National Learning Network (NLN) was a UK national partnership programme designed to increase the uptake of Information Learning Technology (ILT) across the learning and skills sector in England.

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Nicholas Hare Architects

Nicholas Hare Architects is a UK architectural practice, with a portfolio of award-winning projects.

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North Kesteven

North Kesteven is a local government district in the East Midlands.

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North Lindsey College

North Lindsey College is a further education college in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, situated on the A18.

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Peterborough Regional College

Peterborough Regional College, established in 1946 as Peterborough Technical College, is a major further education college in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, and often features an otherwise unknown cast of individuals who are typically not professional actors, although in some shows celebrities may participate.

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Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement

Recognising and recording progress and achievement (RARPA), in the education sector in England, is an approach for measuring the progress and achievement of learners on some further education courses which do not lead to an externally accredited award or qualification.

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Rochdale Sixth Form College

Rochdale Sixth Form College is a Sixth Form College opened in September 2010.

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Rod Kenyon

Rodney Frank Kenyon (June 1945 – 8 December 2013) was a former Human Resources Director at British Gas and was Director of the British Gas Engineering Academy.

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Rosemary Squire

Dame Rosemary Anne Squire, DBE (born 27 May 1956) is a British commercial theatre owner and entrepreneur.

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Royal National College for the Blind

The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) is a co-educational specialist residential college of further education based in the English city of Hereford.

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Saif Uddin Ahmad

Saif Uddin Ahmad (সাইফ উদ্দিন আহমদ; born 28 February 1957) is a Bangladesh-born British humanitarian and Chief Executive Officer of Al-Khair Foundation.

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School Standards and Framework Act 1998

The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 was the major education legislation passed by the incoming Labour government led by Tony Blair.

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Sea captain

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner in ultimate command of the merchant vessel.

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Shaun Reay

Shaun Reay (born 20 May 1989) is an English footballer who played in the Football League for Darlington.

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Sir George Monoux College

Sir George Monoux College is a sixth form college located in Walthamstow, East London.

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Sixth form college

A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, the Caribbean, Malta, Norway, Brunei, and Malaysia, among others, where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels, Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, or school-level qualifications such as General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations.

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Skills Funding Agency

The Skills Funding Agency was one of two successor organisations that emerged from the closure in 2010 of the Learning and Skills Council (England's largest non-departmental public body or quango).

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South East England

South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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South Essex College

South Essex College of Further and Higher Education, also known as South Essex College, is a further education college located over three main sites in Basildon, Southend-on-Sea and Grays in Essex, England.

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Spelthorne College

Spelthorne College was a single-campus sixth form college on High Street, Ashford, Surrey, England.

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Stanmore College

Stanmore College is in the London Borough of Harrow and was established as a tertiary college in 1987.

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Steve Rotheram

Steven Philip Rotheram (born 4 November 1961) is a British Labour Party politician who is the Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region.

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The Prince's Trust

The Prince's Trust is a charity in the United Kingdom founded in 1976 by Charles, Prince of Wales to help vulnerable young people get their lives on track.

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Train to Gain

Train to Gain (T2G), was a UK government funded initiative to deliver vocational training to employed adults.

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Training and enterprise councils

Training and enterprise councils (TECs) were local bodies established in England and Wales in the early 1990s to administer publicly funded training programmes, replacing the former Manpower Services Commission.

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University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia (abbreviated as UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England.

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Uxbridge College

Uxbridge College (formerly Uxbridge Technical College) is a general further education college in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Vic and Bob

Vic and Bob, also known as Reeves and Mortimer, are a British comedy double act consisting of Vic Reeves (born 24 January 1959, real name James Roderick Moir) and Bob Mortimer (born 23 May 1959).

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West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Wigan and Leigh College

Wigan and Leigh College is a state General Further and Higher Education College based at six locations in the towns of Wigan and Leigh in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom.

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Worthing

Worthing is a large seaside town in England, with borough status in West Sussex.

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Wyke College

Wyke Sixth Form College is a sixth form college in Kingston upon Hull, England.

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York College (York)

York College is a further and higher education college in York, England.

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Young People's Learning Agency

The Young People's Learning Agency for England, commonly referred to as the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA), was a UK government body, based in Coventry, which funded further education for 16- to 19-year-olds in England.

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2008 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 2008 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries.

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2008 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2008 for the Commonwealth realms were announced on 29 December 2007, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2008.

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